Live storytelling: the perfect antidote to screen fatigue – and a mighty enjoyable way to re-connect dizzy DocLabbers – after five days of screenings, projects, and talks exploring the future of narrative – with what we’re all trying to do here: share gosh-darned good stories.
Night 3 in the DocLab Live program, and they were lining up at the door of Tuschinski 4, for New York Times multimedia producer Zach Wise’s top web bookmarks selection, a bespoke pick of golden needles in that murky haystack they call “Internet”.
The second live screening for this year’s interactive IDFA program featured three very different web projects, which nonetheless hail from what seems to be emerging as the Godmother of Non-Linear / Non-Fiction: the fair nation of Canada.
The first in DocLab 2010’s line-up of 5 live interactive screenings at Amsterdam’s Tuschinski cinema, featuring web road movies in Japan and California.
Defining which tools, formats, techniques we should hone – and which would best be left along the wayside of the interactive documentary landscape.
A panel discussion at the sumptuous Art et Amicitiae mansion in central Amsterdam on Wednesday 24th November will put the world of interactive documentary to rights, as industry leaders Rob McLaughlin (National Film Board of Canada), Frank Boyd (Unexpected Media), and Joel Ronez (ARTE) gather around a table to separate the wheat from the chaff.
NB This Industry Panel is only open to Docs for Sale and FORUM participants.
IDFA DocLab is the New Media program of the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA). Since 2007, the program showcases new forms of documentary storytelling and interactive media art, both online and offline. During the IDFA Festival in November, DocLab presents a competition program for Digital Documentary Storytelling, live cinema events, interactive installations, workshops and industry panels. The program is open to all media that can be used to tell a documentary story.
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